Alumni Highlight: Rachel Hayes
Rachel Hayes is a licensed Therapist who earned her Graduate Certificate in Aromatherapy from ACHS because she wants to incorporate aromatherapy into her practice. Although she hasn’t yet used her newly acquired certificate, she has had many experiences with aromatherapy in her personal life. Experience with essential oils Rachel uses essential oils when she experiences […]
Celebrate Culinary Calendula
Photo Credit: Kimberly Konkol Calendula officinalis (L.), has a beautiful golden flower and provides us with many therapeutic benefits. Calendula is well-known for it’s amazing skin-care properties. Oil infusions and tinctures are both simple ways you can capture the healing properties of calendula for use on the skin. To learn more about how to make […]
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Alumni Highlight: Nona Kindsvater
Nona Kindsvater was homeless during one-third of her time studying at ACHS. Despite this, she still graduated with honors. Nona graduated in 2016 with an AAS in Complementary Alternative Medicine with aroma and herbal specializations and Diploma in Holistic Health Practice and Diploma in Herbal Studies and she is now the owner of a thriving […]
Choose Calendula for Skin Health
Blog & Photo Credit: Kimberly Konkol
Branding Your Wellness Business
Whether you are training to become a holistic health teacher, practitioner or entrepreneur, developing your online presence and brand awareness is essential. Creating a platform from which to share your unique voice will place your product or service in front of the audience that will benefit from your expertise.
Echinacea: A Beautiful Flower with a Beautiful Purpose
Copyright: Pixabay.com The Echinacea Story Echinacea is certainly one of the most popular dietary supplements in the United States today, but it took a rather circuitous route to achieve such popularity. Let’s start at the beginning. Echinacea grows wild in the central United States and Canada. There are ten distinct species of Echinacea identified, but […]
WELLNESS CAREERS– BOARDS AND REGISTRATION EXAMS
This blog is co-authored by Amanda Lattin, ACHS Aromatherapy Program Chair, Professor So you’ve graduated from your ACHS program. What’s next? Are you ready to take the next steps? Before you put those books away and breathe a sigh of relief, get your board and registration exams scheduled and complete your professional membership applications! With […]
Tips for a Well Stocked Pantry
Copyright: 123rf.com Around here we keep our pantries stocked with nutritious staples, since there are always times in which you just can’t get to the store, or when you need to stretch your budget. We’ve made a quick list of items to keep on hand in case you need to save the day at mealtime.
Alumni Highlight: Lola Boyers
It’s amazing how one little thing can change the course of your life. That’s what happened to ACHS graduate Lola Boyers when she happened to start reading Natural Cures They Don’t Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau. Lola doesn’t remember where she got the book, but is glad she did because it jump-started […]
Student Highlight: Nicole Berry | achs.edu
Nicole Berry connects language, travel, and nutrition in her study abroad program Nutrition and Natural Medicine in Peru. As an ACHS student who lives in Spain for most of the year, Nicole says that online school fits well into her life. “It’s very supportive of my lifestyle, which is traveling a lot and running a […]
Holistic Approaches to Fibromyalgia | Part III
In Part 1 of the series, A Holistic Approach to Fibromyalgia, I shared my journey from conventional medicine to arriving at a diagnosis of joint hypermobility and fibromyalgia. In Part 2 I talked about my ventures into researching natural therapies and holistic solutions to my symptoms. In this article I will get specific about the […]
